Quotes About Self

Control is an illusion, Steele. I learned that a long time ago. It doesn't matter who appears to have it. We really only can control ourselves. We have choices. You were my choice.

He was called Ice for a number of reasons, but the biggest was because he was truly ice inside. A glacier. Deep, wide, dense, impossible to penetrate. He thought his heart was encased in ice. He thought his emotions long since frozen, but she was changing everything, including his perception of himself.

He breathed away all the anger, all emotions, cloaking himself with Grace and everything in him settled, once more allowing complete control.

You need to remember how to play, to laugh. You need to learn to like yourself more." The hard edges of his mouth softened, curved. "You sound like the priest." "I hope you confessed that you took advantage of me," she teased.

I have never been such a real person as I am today.

Through the doctor's eyes, I see myself as a chemical reaction, and as you know, chemical formulas are definite and lead to definite conclusions.

Make a decision, trust yourself and stick with it.

Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of which he can remember, but the most he is having trouble remembering. History is transforming the past to a story that the person tells himself. Sometimes, the story stems from the past, but even the most sincere patient's history is more like a myth. (Translated from the Hebrew edition).

The schizophrenic position is one where a self's embedment in the solace of the quotidian is breached, and consciousness is confronted with both the complexities of thought processes and the raw materials of unconscious function.

I don't have a body, I am a body.

The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other words, religion is the self-consciousness and self-feeling of man who has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself again.

I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling public shits that they have forfeited their right to bitch.

It may be that... you recognize something of yourself in these instances... a disposition to resistance... against arbitrary authority or witless mass opinion

Deprivation of the ability to speak is more like an attack of impotence, or the amputation of part of the personality. To a great degree, in public and in private, I 'was' my voice.

I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist.

I put my genius into my life, not into my art.

Christopher Isherwood

If you can only quiet the Ego, soul and body begin to function of themselves, in

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

And without guilt and dread, who am I?

What is character, if not a man's measure of himself against his friends and enemies?

Se prometió a sí mismo acojonarse por ello en cuanto tuviera tiempo.

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I? "See your skin as what connects you